Andrew Glazzard, Sasha Jesperson, Thomas Maguire

Conflict, Violent Extremism and Development

New Challenges, New Responses

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts. The threat from terrorism and violent extremism has never been greater - at least in the global South where the vast majority of violent extremist attacks take place. Some of the most violent extremist groups are also parties to civil conflicts in regions such as the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. But are these groups - especially the violent Islamists which constitute the greatest current threat - qualitatively different from other conflict actors? If they are, what are the implications for development practitioners working in war zones and fragile or poverty-afflicted countries? This study aims to answer these questions through a combination of theoretical enquiry and the investigation of three case studies - Kenya, Nigeria, and Iraq/Syria. It aims to illuminate the differences between violent Islamists and other types of conflictactor, to identify the challenges these groups pose to development practice, and to propose a way forward for meeting these challenges.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-319-84663-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 6mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9783319846637
• ISBN-10: 3319846639
• Artikelnr.: 55126492

Autorenporträt

Andrew Glazzard is the Director of the National Security and Resilience Studies group at RUSI, UK.

Sasha Jesperson is the Director of the Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery, St Mary's University, UK.

Thomas Maguire is a Research Associate at the Department of War Studies, Kings College London, UK.

Emily Winterbotham is a Senior Research Fellow in the National Security and Resilience team at RUSI, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Conflict and Violent Extremism: Theories and Evidence.- Chapter 2: Case Studies: Testing the Hypothesis in Kenya, Nigeria and Syria/Iraq.- Chapter 3: Kenya: More Local than Global.- Chapter 4: Nigeria: A Religious Framing of Grievances.- Chapter 5: Iraq and Syria: Complex, Dynamic, and Divided.- Chapter 6: Implications for Development, Peacebuilding and Statebuilding.